{"id":265,"date":"2015-06-17T19:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=265"},"modified":"2016-06-16T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:17:02","slug":"chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver had a day off today, whilst Sarah and I headed into Chester for the day to play tourists and have some retail therapy. We&#8217;d stopped a short way outside Chester itself to avoid having to go through half a dozen locks and back, so caught the bus into town.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lovely walk around the city walls which provided some fantastic views across the city and beyond; one section was particularly interesting where the canal had been routed in such a way as to use the old moat below the walls rather than them having to cut a new channel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1342-e1434567533826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1342-e1434567533826-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The canal builders made use of the moat around the walls\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1342-e1434567533826-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1342-e1434567533826-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The canal builders made use of the moat around the walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After tea and coffee and some cake to boost our energy levels we headed in to the cathedral, which had some fabulous stained glass windows, and tranquil gardens in the centre.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1345.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-268\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1345-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chester Cathedral\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1345-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1345-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chester Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We then caught a different bus back and had a short walk along the tow path the rest of the way,\u00a0and then put our feet up for a well earned rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver had a day off today, whilst Sarah and I headed into Chester for the day to play tourists and have some retail therapy. We&#8217;d stopped a short way outside Chester itself to avoid having to go through half a dozen locks and back, so caught the bus into town. We had a lovely walk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chester<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-llangollen2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8PLyH-chester","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}